IEEE augmented reality learning experience model (ARLEM)
1. A Standard for
Augmented Reality
Learning Experience Models
(AR-LEM)
Fridolin Wild1), Christine Perey2)
1) The Open University, UK
2) Perey Research and Consulting, CH
2. Agenda
• Welcome by Avron Barr (LTSC)
• Purpose and goals of ARLEM
• Process of developing the
specification
• Policies and procedures
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4. IEEE Standards Working Groups
Identified market problem and solution
– Who will be selling what to whom? What products will be “certified”?
– Solving an identified or anticipated market problem: fractured marketplace,
excessive product integration costs, product incompatibility, vendor lock-in
– Vendors and their customers should see the need for standards, as evidenced
by their participation and sponsorship.
– The specification may be only a part of the solution. Stewardship might also
involve promotion, conformance testing, best practices guides, maintenance,
and continued evolution of the spec.
Participation and governance in the IEEE
– All IEEE LTSC proceedings are open to observers
– The working group gets to decide about membership (individual vs. entity),
fees, voting, and its governance framework generally, within IEEE guidelines.
– Shared IP: http://open-stand.org
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5. Learning Technology Standards Committee
Current Projects:
Study groups (pre-standard)
– Actionable Data Book. Exploring the future of educational
publication – textbooks that compute.
– Project-based Learning Opportunities. Exploring the possibility of
describing internships and other on-the-job learning opportunities
and building a brokerage system to match prospects with jobs.
– Competencies. Defining a universal language for describing
competency frameworks, which will allow these frameworks to be
compatible and interoperable across communities of practice.
Standards working groups
– Resource Aggregation Models for Learning Education and
Training. Developing ontology based solutions for semantic
interoperability across the various elearning content packaging
schemes.
– Augmented Reality. Developing a standard model for defining AR-
based learning experiences.
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6. You can’t make a standard!
Pre-standards
Activities
- Principles
- Requirements
- Early Specs
- Prototypes
Standardization
- Compromises
- Champions
- Prototypes
Early Adoption
- Publication
- First Products
- PR
Rude
Awakening
- User feedback
- Revisions
Real Adoption
- Stabilization
- Test Suites
- Products
- Conformance
- Compliance
Only the market can
make a standard
Robby Robson, 2005
16. The Activity Model
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“find the spray
gun nozzle size
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Messaging in the
real-time
presence
channel and
tracking to xAPI
onEnter/onExit
chaining of
actions and
other
activations/deact
ivations
Styling
(cascading) of
viewports and
UI elements
Constraint modeling:
specify validation
conditions and model
workflow branching
e.g. smart player;
e.g. request widget
http://bit.ly/arlem-input
19. The Workplace Model
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The ‘tangibles’:
Specific persons,
places, things
The ‘configurables’:
devices (styling),
apps+widgets
The ‘triggers’:
Markers trigger
Overlays; Overlays
trigger human action
Overlay ‘Primitives’:
enable re-use of e.g.
graphical overlays
http://bit.ly/arlem-input
25. The development steps
Development of use cases. There will be an on-line use
cases repository maintained by the working group.
Scan all relevant standards for possible synergies and
overlaps. Note: we already know that there is a gap (no
standards in this area).
Development of the specification including multiple
models.
Validation through development of reference
implementations
Testing of reference implementations.
… then ballots
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26. Use Case Repository: Methodology
At AR community meeting next week
(MIT media lab)
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28. Policies and procedures
ARLEM is an open group, anyone can join.
To vote, you have to be an IEEE SA member (individual model).
Next ‘ARLEM globetrotter’ meetings:
– At ‘AR Community’: March 24-25 in
Boston: http://www.perey.com/ARStandards/march-2015-
ar-community-meeting/
– Augmented World Expo (AWE’15, June 8-10, 2015: Santa
Clara, CA)
– Immersive Learning Research Network Conference (iLRN’15,
July 13-14, 2015: Prague, CZ)
– European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-
TEL’15, September 15-18, 2015: Toledo, ES)
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